May 4, 2024
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That's the percentage WashingtonPost.com -- no shrinking violet in the new battle of D.C. -- is up in unique visitors, June, 2010 over June, 2009, according to Nielsen. That positive number is a small feat. Nielsen's Current News category was down 2.74% overall for the same period.
Read MoreThe launch will come next week, in the doggiest days of D.C. summer, creating a regional DC alternative to the long-impressive WashingtonPost.com. I'll offer today a half-dozen reasons why TBD is a launch worth watching by all those in Old and Newer media. It may be the first significant ...
Read MoreIsn't it time to get a little interactive? Take Conventional Wisdom Watch (major riff on conventional wisdom over at New Republic), an enduring editorial classic measuring the political zeitgeist. It's iconic -- and readers could play along submitting their own, crowdsourcing, inventing and ...
Read MoreThinking about the recent terminations at the Washington Post and CNN, though, I wonder if the press priesthood is still another cultural institution in the process of being swept away, encumbered as much as it has by habit as by principle.
Read MoreThat’s left me wondering exactly what value is in good editing. Are there any Newsonomics of editing, value to be gained and harvested?
Read MoreFor the Times, Thought Equity Motion will take about two years of news video, from the time when the company started to produce video in earnest, and enable their greater re-use. The Times hopes that digitization will open the door to wider web usage and greater monetization.
Read MoreThe Post says it will concentrate on key DC industries: government contracting, technology, finance, commercial real estate, national associations and the legal community. Interpret the move as both a grab for needed growth and a flank better protected as the Jim Brady-led Allbritton DC online ...
Read MoreSo, as the Times reorganizes its digital business operations, add something new to the Times woes' of downsized ad spend, too great a cost structure and little way to gain other than ad revenues digitally until at least 2011 given its go-slow approach to metering. Add the forest people, the ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Bloomberg and the Washington Post have announced a full-throated partnership, with content moving both ways. The action accompanies the dissolution of the 47-year-old Los Angeles Times – Washington Post (LAT-WP) wire, which was announced the same week, as the Tribune ...
Read MoreFast Flip, Google's hardly secret visual news search product, just made its debut today. It's a premiere that tells us lots about the swirling tradewinds in which the company now finds itself. It also marks two important milestones, one about the slow replacement of news search 1.0 and one ...
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